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To upload photo spheres to Google, Google+ users need only to sign into their account and click the blue camera button at the top right of the page, Google Product Manager Evan Rapoport wrote in the blog post. Existing panoramic images can also be uploaded to Views from the Android Gallery app by tapping "Share" and selecting Google Maps as the destination.

To give the site immediate content, Google included a Street View Gallery that features panoramas of Google's most popular Street View collections. Clicking the "Explore" button at the top of the page will launch the collections next to the user-submitted content.

Photo spheres can be created using the camera on any device running Android 4.2 or later, as well as most of Google's own Nexus devices. Images captured on DSLRs can also be shared.